[ruby-core:56954] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7292] Enumerable#to_h

Issue #7292 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).


Acceptable.  How others think about Marc's rule?

 * elements should respond to #to_ary
 * return value from #to_ary should be 2 elements array
 * otherwise the element will be ignored (no TypeError exception)

If no one objects, I'd be fine.  Marc, do you want to implement it by yourself, or ask somebody to do so?

Matz.


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Feature #7292: Enumerable#to_h
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7292#change-41514

Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: core
Target version: next minor


Now that #to_h is the official method for explicit conversion to Hash, we should also add

	Enumerable#to_h: Returns a hash for the yielded key-value pairs.

	  [[:name, 'Joe Smith'], [:age, 42]].to_h # => {name: 'Joe Smith', age: 42}


With the Ruby tradition of succint documentation I suggest the documentation talk about key-value pairs and there is no need to be explicit about the uninteresting cases like:

    (1..3).to_h           # => {1 => nil, 2 => nil, 3 => nil}
    [[1, 2], [1, 3]].to_h # => {1 => 3}
    [[1, 2], []].to_h     # => {1 => 2, nil => nil}

I see some reactions of people reading about the upcoming 2.0 release like this one:
http://globaldev.co.uk/2012/11/ruby-2-0-0-preview-features/#dsq-comment-body-700242476



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